Prof. Margaret Kamar

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Oct 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir for the opportunity. I thank the Cabinet Secretary for re-energizing the sector. We believe he will do well if he implements what he has presented before us today. As I seek clarification on one statement he made, I congratulate Kelvin Kiptum, the new world marathon record breaker. The Cabinet Secretary already awarded him the Kshs5 million. We thank him for that. It has re-energised the whole sector. He is actually from the village I was born. I wish to seek clarification. When you pay a world record breaker Kshs5 million, does he still get ... view
• 11 Oct 2023 in Senate: Thank you Madam Temporary Speaker for giving me the opportunity to join my colleagues in strongly supporting the Social Health Insurance Bill. Because of time, I will go straight to Part V: The Emergency, Chronic and Critical Illness Fund. When this Bill is passed and assented to, this is going to be the biggest benefit as far as I can see. Some people have suffered from chronic diseases like kidney diseases. People who have had transplants and have to have lifelong treatments have suffered. We know families that sometimes skip medication. It has been a disaster. So, this is the ... view
• 11 Oct 2023 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services,Senate. view
• 11 Oct 2023 in Senate: a lack of support when they had these kinds of illnesses. This is going to be a thing of the past. We look forward to this Bill being assented to. I support. view
• 26 Sep 2023 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity. I rise to strongly support this Bill, but with amendments. As I support it, I am doing so basically because devolution is supposed to go to the lowest unit. For me, this is the best part of this Bill, that each and every public health facility will have an account to collect this money and it will be independent. This is the strongest part of this Bill. What this is going to do is that with the devolution of health to the health Centre, people will be independent and ... view
• 26 Sep 2023 in National Assembly: I say this because I have an experience that I had in Moiben where I come from. Most mothers were going to deliver across in Elgeyo/Marakwet County and when I asked why. I was told it is because of a facility in Elgeyo/Marakwet County where they were giving mothers who had delivered a blanket and other small things. That was something that mothers loved. So, the minute we do this, there will be competition between facilities because every facility will be the best and I can see this raising more revenue than we are raising right now. I also like ... view
• 26 Sep 2023 in National Assembly: I only want to caution the committee on this issue called the nominating forum of youth organizations. Which youth organizations are those? The same thing with joint forum of women. It will take a very long time to get women or youth to come together to give you one person. Let us make it not only open but also transparent and state that a baraza will be done and whoever will be there will be nominated. They need to articulate it better. I thank you. view
• 20 Sep 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I also thank the hon. Cabinet Secretary for the elaborate answers to the questions presented before this House. I agree fully with the answer to Question (d) on the implementation status of the Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) as articulated by the Cabinet Secretary. However, I seek clarification on young learners. The Committee on Education has been visiting schools for the disabled. There was one observation we made when we went to a school of mentally challenged children. We discovered that the ratio required between teachers and students was highly violated. Whereas ... view
• 20 Sep 2023 in Senate: What is it that the Cabinet Secretary will do because we know that those children belong to her even though the Ministry of Education funds those schools? What will her Ministry and the Ministry of Education do to ensure that they receive proper education? Without a good foundation, these learners will not enjoy their rights all the way up the ladder. They will not be able to get proper education at the university level and they will not even reach secondary school and yet, the foundation is extremely important. What will the Cabinet Secretary do to ensure that the ratios ... view
• 20 Sep 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Motion by Sen. Mumma. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when I read this Motion, I had to ask Sen. Mumma what she means by e-cigarettes because things are evolving so fast that some of us are not even catching up with what they are. I want to start by agreeing with Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, beyond the recommendations that we are being given, we should be going towards a Bill. I want to encourage Sen. Mumma to quickly move towards developing a Bill, the reason being that the two ... view